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World Cocoa Foundation Co-Hosts International Conference on Cocoa Sustainability in Indonesia

- The global sustainable cocoa community convenes in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia, on May 15-16 for the Sixth Indonesian ...

RI does not need to import rice in 2014

Chief Economic Minister Hatta Rajasa said that Indonesia would not need to import rice in 2014 because the government ...

Bulog determined not to import rice this year

The state logistics agency (Bulog) is determined not to import rice this year if the unhulled rice production target ...

Bengkulu to open 1,000 hectares of new rice fields

The Bengkulu agriculture service was reported to utilize 1,000 hectare of idle lands in the province for expansion of ...

Heroin smuggled from Malaysia seized

The customs officers of Ngurah Rai International Airport in Bali have foiled an attempt to smuggle 372 grams of ...

Jambi`s coal exports up to $31.39 mln

Jambi (ANTARA News - Jambi province`s coal exports in the first two months of 2012 jumped 64.25 percent to US$31.39 ...

Farmers, fishermen rally to oppose thermal power plant construction

Tens of farmers and fishermen in Batang district, Central Java, demonstrated on Monday against a plan to build a ...

Indonesia, New Zealand agree to increase economic relations

Indonesia and New Zealand have agreed to increase their economic relations, which are still considered quite low. ...

Dahlan challenges students to create agricultural machine

State Enterprises Minister Dahlan Iskan has challenged Bogor Institute of Agriculture (IPB) students to come up with ...

Govt to create rice fields amid food scarcity threat

The government plans to create rice fields on 100 thousand hectares of land this year in anticipation of the threat of ...

Potter actor jailed for his part in London riots

A London court on Tuesday sentenced a star of the Harry Potter films to two years in prison after he earlier admitted ...

RI potentially become rice exporter: farmers

The gvernment needs to be more selective in its policies on farm seeds in order to make Indonesia a world rice ...

W Sulawesi governor promises to build cacao fertilizer plant

West Sulawesi Governor Anwar Adnan Saleh (AAS) promised the farmers in his area to build a cacao fertilizer plant not ...

Rice fields need better infrastructures

Indonesia needs to develop its dams and irrigation to overcome desolation during droughts so that the country`s 7.5 ...

RI govt to speed up paddy planting amid drought

In spite of the drought, the government is ready to begin paddy planting this month, in an effort to cover this year`s ...